My end goal is to have my copter (pixhawk F550) follow a moving target (boat/car) while circling it with the camera always pointed at the target. I was wondering if there is anyway to do this currently.
Could one use follow me mode on the pixhawk, wi
Read more…Hi,the default settings for my arducopter (version 2.6) are not correct. The copter (DJI F450) reacts extremely fast to all changes and it is very wobbly. Manual says that this is due to RATE_RLL_P and RATE_PIT_P being too high. I tried to change the
Read more…Hello here is the list I have comprised from some advice and research I have done so far and I would like to see what other input I could get from people on what I have so far plus what I may be lacking (I know I need a distribution board so if you c
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I've been following a few folks working on sense and avoidance systems and I'm convinced that their approach (i.e. an elaborate sense and avoidance system) is overkill. Should the focus not be, especially for FPV, about the overlay of information wit
Read more…Got a hobby king Tarot with a missing circuit board chip. Hoping to use someone's old broken board and canabalize it and soldier it up.Make offerThanks
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So I got minimosd working yesterday. Showing overlay and getting mav data. Now today..
Please see image attached from my monitor, its showing overlay data but has a bunch of gibberish all over the video. What the heck?
Read more…Everything works properly in the past, but for some reason today when the app is running, I have no maps.... I have tried the four versions as well. It seems that it knows position in space as well... just no visual maps, only white screen tiles.
Any
Read more…I just replaced and amp 2.5 with a pixhawk and now seem to have a strange issue where upon restating the pixhawk the roll pid is zero! I discovered this by setting the mode stabilize and noticed the controller does not make any adjustments for roll.
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I'm building a hexacopter with a Tarot T960 frame and a Pixhawk. Here are my other components:
HobbyKing 40A BlueSeries Brushless Speed Controllers
iPower MT4114 320kv
17x55 props
6s Lipo
I've built the thing and gone through ESC calibration withou
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Is there a way that we can configure the ardupilot to follow the terrain topology, example:
I am at 0 altitude, and I have created a waypoint 1 at 30 meters and a second waypoint 2 at 30 meters also, but between them there is a high hill at 50 met
So i bought a minimosd direct from 3dr. First time ive done this. I wired it up to be powered off of the flight controller (pixhawk) and just have video and ground running through the video side like i always have. No video is coming out. Even wh
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I want to setup my swash plate servos, but oddly it's not possible to save the MIN/MAX values for the servos 1 to 3. At every restart of the APM the values HSx_MIN and HSx_MAX are set to the defaults (1000 and 2000). Only trim (HSx_TRIM) remains i
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I want to get GPS position for each image I take with Tetracam ADC Lite camera without having to analyze the log file after each flight. This camera has a dedicated RS-232 to capture the NMEA GPS sentences.
I´m using APM 2.6 with u-blox GPS. I w
Read more…Been trying to update the firmware of my brand new apm 2.6 unit. I keep getting a no connection error after reading the hex while trying to update my firmware. I tried using flip to update the chip firmware and that seemed successful. Any ideas why I
Read more…I've posted about this before, but I feel I must reinforce this:
You MUST use a completely independent power supply for your APM or Pixhawk than you use for the Servos. DO NOT use one BEC to supply both the Servos, and the APM/Pixhawk.
On most of my h
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The images attached (photomosaic and blown up section) were taken on the weekend. I am flying a Skywalker X7 with a Nikon J2 camera using a Pixhawk and triggering the camera every 30 metres.
The problem I have is that the pictures can be taken
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I am diving into the ArduCopter code for my project. I am curious how the Arducopter repository is compiled for specific hardware (whether its APM or PIXHAWK). When I look at the Arducopter repositories, I come across lot of .pde (arduino specif
Read more…RTL has worked well for 10-15 flights. Tonight I performed compassmot, came back at 6%. Did it again, 7%. Everything seemed ok, but haven't tried Auto Tune yet.
So I ran a test flight in the back yard before going to the field. Took off, put in alt-h,
Read more…I'm running a 2014 RTF 3DR Quad with 3.12 (yea, I've been told to upgrade).
I noticed yesterday that in stable hover on a windless day, my motor (RCOUT) outs are not the same. The logs clearly shows that motors 1 and 4 are sort of in sync while 2 alwa
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I have been flying my quadcopter with mission planner in Korea and happy about its auto navigation flying.
However, 1 out of 7 or 8 attempts the mission was failed due to lost gps signal in the middle of waypoints.
As a robotics engineer myself,
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